Wang Gungwu: Junzi: Scholar-Gentleman in Conversation with Asad-UL Iqbal Latif (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789814311533)

This book of interviews with Professor Wang Gungwu, published to felicitate him on his 80th birthday in 2010, seeks to convey to a general audience something of the life, times and thoughts of a leading historian, Southeast Asianist, Sinologist and public intellectual. The interviews flesh out Professor Wangs views on being Chinese in Malaya; his experience of living and working in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia; the Vietnam War; Hong Kong and its return to China; the rise of China; Taiwans, Japans and Indias place in the emerging scheme of things; and on the United States in an age of terrorism and war. The book includes an interview with his wife, Mrs Margaret Wang, on their life together for half a century. Two interviews by scholars on Professor Wangs work are also included, as are his curriculum vitae and a select bibliography of his works. What comes across in this book is how Professor Wang was buffeted by feral times and hostile worlds but responded to them as a left-liberal humanist who refused to cut ideological corners. This book records his response to tumultuous times on hindsight, but with a keen sense of having lived through the times of which he speaks.

Author: Gungwu Wang
ISBN-10: 9814311537
ISBN-13: 9789814311533
Publisher: Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2010
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d